By an Important Reformer and Opponent of Capital Punishment Montagu, Basil [1770-1851]. Thoughts Upon the Abolition of the Punishment of Death, In Cases of Bankruptcy. London: Printed for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1821. 71 pp. 12mo. (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into later library buckram, calf lettering piece and... More

Early English Treatise on Bankruptcy that Summarizes About Fifty Cases Not Reported Elsewhere Davies, Thomas. The Laws Relating to Bankrupts, Brought Home to the Present Time: With Several Special Cases, Modern Determinations, and Precedents Relating Thereto; and Directions for Creditors and Debtors. Also A List of the Fees in Bankruptcy... More

A Scarce Eighteenth-Century Treatise on Bankruptcy [Great Britain]. Commissioner of Bankrupts. The Law For and Against Bankrupts: Containing all the Statutes, Cases at Large, Arguments, Resolutions, Judgments and Decrees, Under the Head of Bankruptcy, Down to the Present Time. Wherein is Particularly Shewn, What Persons May be Bankrupts Within the... More

A Notable Study of Tax Indebtedness [Trial]. Hughes, T.B. A Report of the Case of the King Against Bebb and Others. Assignees of Castell and Powell, Bankrupts; On an Extent: With Explanatory Notes and an Appendix of Some Cases and Records in Extents Which Have Not Been Before Printed. London..... More

Six Scarce Titles on Bankruptcy, Heretics, Legal Reform and the Professional Conduct of Lawyers [Barlow, Thomas (1607-1691)]. A Discourse Concerning the Laws, Ecclesiastical and Civil, Made Against Hereticks, By Popes, Emperors and Kings, Provincial and General Councils, Approved by the Church of Rome: Shewing I. What Protestant Subjects May Expect... More

The King and His Creditors [Turner, Thomas (d. 1679)]. The Case of the Bankers and Their Creditors, Stated and Examined. Wherein the Property of the Subject in This, And the Like Cases, Is Soberly Asserted, By the Common and Statute Laws of England, His Majesties Most Gracious Declarations; By Innumerable... More

Scarce 1870 English Treatise on Bankruptcy, With Co-Author's Signature and Annotations Bulley, John F., and John William Willis Bund. A Manual of the Law & Practice of Bankruptcy, As Amended & Consolidated by the Statutes of 1869. With an Appendix, Containing the Statutes, Orders and Forms. London: Butterworths, 1870. xvii... More

Scarce 1870 English Treatise on Bankruptcy Bulley, John F. Bund, John William Willis. A Manual of the Law & Practice of Bankruptcy, As Amended & Consolidated by the Statutes of 1869. With an Appendix, Containing the Statutes, Orders and Forms. London: Butterworths, 1870. [vi], xvii, 275, cclxxxvii, 46, [2] pp... More

Philadelphia Businessmen Petition Congress for A Bankruptcy Law During the Panic of 1823-24 [Ralston, Robert (1761-1836)]. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Philadelphia, Praying for a General System of Bankruptcy. January 5, 1824. Read, And Ordered to Lie Upon the Table. Washington: Printed by Gales &... More

Collier, Wm. Miller. The Law of Bankruptcy and the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898. A Treatise of the Principles and Practice of the Law of Bankruptcy as Embodies in the New National Bankruptcy Act. Albany, N.Y.: Matthew Bender, 1899. xxx, 695 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Cloth... More